AP – The government’s climate change research is threatened by spending cuts that will reduce scientists’ observations from space and on the ground, a study says.
Study: Cutbacks imperil climate research (AP)
AP – Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea, Italian experts said Wednesday.
Experts: Europe heating up faster (AP)
While it may seem hard to grasp, scientists now believe that even deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities – once thought to be completely isolated from all other ecosystems – will not be able to escape the effects of global climate change. Read more at: Even Hiding in Deep-Sea Vents Won’t Save You from Climate Change
AFP – Climate change will have an overwhelmingly negative impact on health with possibly one billion more people at risk from dengue fever within 80 years, an expert said Tuesday.
Expert says climate change will spread global disease (AFP)
Reuters – More beetles and fewer spruce trees in Alaska, whiter coral and fewer scuba-divers in Florida and more wildfires in Arizona already show the impact of climate change on U.S. lands and waters, a congressional watchdog agency reported on Thursday.
Climate change hits federal land and water: report (Reuters)
This is Further Proof that things are not always done the correct way. Tsk Tsk!
AP – A 20-year government effort to restore the population of an endangered native trout in Colorado has made little progress because biologists have been stocking some of the waterways with the wrong fish, a new study says.
Study: Wrong fish used to save species (AP)
AFP – Gorillas, China’s baiji dolphin, Asian vultures and Pacific corals on Wednesday joined the list of species hurtling to oblivion as the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warned of a fast-track “global extinction crisis.”
Reuters – Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday.
